Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-11-10
A HOPELESS CASE.

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| Denial by the United States Supreme
Court of the Writ of Error Asked for on
Behalf of the Condemned Chicago An-
archists-How They Received the News.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-The Anarchists
| application for writ of error was denied
| by the Supreme Court of the United States
| to-day. This destroys their last chance
| for judicial interference with the execu-
| tion of the sentence, and their only hope
now for prolongation of life seems to de-
| pend upon the executive clemency of the
| Governor of Illinois. The court room was
| crowded when the justices took their seats
| q few minutes past twelve o'clock. They
| appeared unusually solemn and serious,
| and a hush fell over the room when Chief
| Justice Waite, without a moments delay.
| announced that he would read the opinion
| of the court in the matter of an applica-
| ton by Spies and others for writ of error
| to the Supreme Court of the State of Illi-
| nois.
Almost the first sentence indicate ted that
| the Anarchists appeal to the court of last
| resort was Intellectual and that the writ
| would be denied. Chief Justice Waite,
who it is understood prepared the decis-
| ion, proceeded slowly and calmly to read
| the decision, while the audience paid the
closest attention to each sentence.
In the decision the court takes up sepa-
rately each of the propositions advanced
by counsel for the petitioners, and pro-
nounces upon the law and questions of
fact governing the record upon which
it is sought to establish these PROPOSE
lions, and in each and every case rules
distinctly against all these propositions.
They lay particular stress upon the fact
that in previous decisions the con.
stitutionality of laws similar to the
jury laws of Illinois had been determined
in their favor, and that the Supreme Court
of Illinois had rightly held that the ac-
cused had not been denied a trial by an
impartial jury. Upon the question Of the
composition of the jury in the trial court,
it is held that both Benker and Sanford
had been properly impanneled, and that
the fact that the defense had exhausted
their peremptory challenges when Juror
Sanford was presented did not come with
in the rule laid down in Territorial case
decided by the Supreme Court of the
United States, and that, therefore, Sanford
was competent juror.
Upon the question of Spies being COM
peeled to testify against himself, the court
holds that no substantiation of that fact
was shown by the record. Upon the
question of illegal seizures in Spies of
fee, the court sustains the ruling of the
Supreme Court of Illinois, which refused
to consider this quest ton, because it had
not been raised in the trial court.
Upon the question of the special plea
entered by General Butler, that Spies and
Fielden We're aliens, and had been deprived
of their rights and immunities under ex-
listing treaty stipulations with Germany
and England, the court holds that no such
question having been presented in the
court below, nor any treaties having been
cited to the court In substantiation of this
claim, and as the court had not been able
to find any such treaties, it there followed
that it could take no cognizance of them,
as it was a question outside of the record
of the case.
Chief Justice Waite closed by saying:
GIVE are, therefore, of opinion that no Fed
eral question has been presented warrant
ing the interference of this court, and
therefore we deny the writ"
CHICAGO. Nov. 3-OnIy the will of
Richard j. Oglesby, Governor of Illinois,
sometimes the genial, but more often the
cold, stern and implacable "Uncle Dick"
stands between the gallows and the seven
condemned Anarchists in the county jail.
"Strangle the law; throttle it," were the
EXPLANATIONS which rang through Hay
market Square as the bomb descended on
it's terrible mission, and yesterday the
highest tribunal in the country placed up.
on him the responsibility of deciding
whether or not the law should strangle
and throttle those that defied and out
ragged it. That responsibility is terrible
one, but those who know him know also
that whatever he con siders his duty will
be done without f1inching, and that like
the laws of the Modes and Persians his
decision once arrived at is unalterable.
That decision is now only matter of a
few days.
"These men are prepared for death.
They ask no mercy; they expect none,"
said Death watch Osborn yesterday
morning. Just before seven little girls
dressed in white had brought in as many
baskets of fruit. They departed without
saying where or from whom the donation
came, but it was surmised that the cratic
Train, who is now in Omaha, was re-
sponsible for the act of kindness.
General M. M. Trumbull and George
Schilling came in soon after and held an
earnest conversation Of half an hours
duration with Sam Fielder. For the next
two hours the condemned men were alone
with their own thoughts.l
A private note addressed to Spies was
the first intimation that any of them re-
ceived that all hope, so far as the Su.
preme Court was concerned, was over.
He was sitting outside his cell door, one
moment writing, the next meditatively
chewing a toothpick, when it was
handed up. CHANGING at it's con-
tents, he handed it back to the
turnkey and resumed his writing and
chewing. Not a movement of the muscles,
not flush upon the palled cheek, indicat-
ed that the news had given him any con-
Germ. Five minutes elapsed, and then,
turning to the death-watch. he said with a
smile: 'It's all up. You might as we'll
spread the news among the boys"
Osborn obeyed and went from cell to
cell with the grim tidings. Fischer mere
~ nodded. Parsons smiled. Fielden
who was lying down upon his cot with
his face toward the door did not shift his
position an inch. Schwab sat on stool
with his face buried in his hands. "What
expected" he said, and then
covered up his face again. Engle,
who was pacing the floor continued to
walk without uttering word. Lingg was
reading and did not even so much as lift
his eyes from the book. Osborn returned
to his post "They all know it," he re-
marked to Spies. The latter nodded and
went on with his writing. Not word,
not a look of inquiry from the arch con-
spirator which would indicate that he was
interested in knowing how his companions
in misery had received the news.
The Military Caught Mapping.
BILLINGS, Mont, Nov. 2.-After watch
ing the Indians for three weeks, the mill
tary allowed two hundred of them to
make their escape for parts unknown